Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended under the Nazis. He escaped from the Germans in 1941, helped to organize the resistance group EAM and their army ELAS. He became kapitanos of the "Macedonian Group of Divisions"; in October 1944, as the Germans withdrew from Salonika, Markos entered the city as liberator without firing a shot. He, not the Greek resistance's commanding general, led the parade, wore the hero's laurel wreath, took the public bows. He then set himself up as regional commissar. Allied officers then in Salonika said: "He believed in running everything himself. No detail was too small, no decision...
...house. She became a Japanese spy, masquerading as a taxi-dancer, a Chinese soldier, even as a Korean prostitute (Chinese officers preferred them). She came to be known as the "Mata Hari of China." When war ended she was captured and three weeks ago sentenced to be shot (TIME, March...
...upon order, faced about and walked nine paces forward. A guard with a rifle came up behind her. "Kneel down," he shouted. The echo rang out from the prison wall. Yoshiko knelt with the poise of a girl being introduced at court. The guard raised his gun, fired one shot into the back of her head. Yoshiko pitched awkwardly on her face. The morning...
...paper that frames a Negro for rape and lets a white murderer go free. Afterwards Lizzie (well played by Meg Mundy*) feels tricked and disturbed, hides the Negro during a manhunt. But Liz eventually becomes resigned and "respectful"-she agrees to be the mistress of a particularly bigoted big shot...
...altar boy, got a respectful hand from the crowd. But most of the 18,491 spectators were obviously rooting for New York University's white-uniformed Violets, who had won 19 straight, had stayed undefeated longer than any other major college team. They were missing their star set-shot artist, Don Forman, out with an aching back...